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cause of death in the case o£ a body which we know to have been 
put into a sait bath for embalmiiig piirposes soon after death and 
left there for several weeks ? 
1 do not think that we can be content to accept M. Fouquet's 
account a.s in any way final. 
Three years ago M. Maspero nnrolled four mummies of the 21st 
dynastie period in the Cairo Muséum ; and entrusted the tasks of 
writing the archaeological and anatomical reports respectively to 
M. Daressy and myself \ 
In ignorance of M. Fouquet's work I described the packing of 
the legs and the breasts of two wonien with pebbly sand and 
linen respectively without being able to find any previous record 
of such a procédure. 
In July, 1905, with the help of Mr. A. C. Mace (of the Hearst 
Egyptological Expédition of the IJniversity of California) I un- 
dertook the detailed study of the mode of wrapping and the 
treatment of the body in the case of the mummy of a Priestess 
of Ammon, named Ta-itsert-em-suten-pd, which M. Maspero 
kindly placed at our disposai. In the course of this examination 
we discovered that the stufïing of the varions parts of the l)ody 
was much more extensive and the process of packing much more 
élabora te than either M. Fouquet or I had supposed. I there fore 
undertook a fuller investigation of forty four mummies of the 
21 st dynasty which M. Maspero had presented to me for the 
School of Medicine three years ago. It is the results of this 
examination that I propose to set forth in this memoir. 
Practically ail of the material came from the great find of 
Priests and Priestesses of Ammon made by M. Grébaut at Dêr el 
Bahari in 1891. 
1 M. Georges Daeessy, Ourcrture des Momiex prnrciin nt de la seconde truti raille de 
Deir-el-Bahart. 
G. Elliot Smith, Report on the Four MuDunies, Annales du Service des Anti(iuités de 
l'Egypte, 1908, p. 15. 
